Abstract
We invite you to the screening of the Soil and the Sea"بحر وتراب" , a documentary film (73 minutes) directed by Daniele Rugo and produced with Carmen Abou Jaoudé in collaboration with Act for the Disappeared at the OIB. The film explores the presence and erasure of potential burial sites from Lebanon's War. It is the first record of its kind to unveil the violent histories lying beneath a garden, a school, a hotel, the sea and other unremarkable landscape through the testimonies of eyewitnesses, families of the missing, former detainees and survivors. The film is part of the broader project Memories from the Margins supported by the British Academy. A discussion with Carmen Abou Jaoudé and Daniele Rugo will follow.

Bios
Dr. Carmen Hassoun Abou Jaoudé is a political scientist and lecturer in transitional justice at Saint-Joseph University of Beirut (USJ). She is an associate researcher at the Center for the Study of the Modern Arab World (CEMAM-USJ). She was the head of the Lebanon office at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) from 2011 to 2015. Since 2020, she is a a member of the Lebanese National Commission for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared.

Daniele Rugo is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. His two most recent films About a War (2019) and The Soil and The Sea (2023) – deal with the legacy of Lebanon’s Civil War. His filmmaking practice engages the landscape to mobilise histories of violence. He is Full Professor of Film at the University of London and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford.


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